President Yitzhak Herzog spoke at the annual state memorial service for the fallen whose burial place is unknown, on Mount Herzl: “Dear and beloved families, the duty of the State of Israel to bring your loved ones to a proper rest and to the grave in Israel – is a supreme moral imperative.
How worried we have been over the past two and a half years, since the terrible massacre, that more families would join your circle, the long painful list. And how happy we were when we were able to remove the yellow kidnapped pin with the return of the last kidnapped victim.”
The audience stood as a memorial flame was lit by Dalia Mizrachi, the daughter of First Lieutenant David Mizrahi, who fell during Israel’s War of Independence in an operation across Egypt’s border.
Among those attending were Israeli President Isaac Herzog, Defense Minister Israel Katz and Deputy President of the Supreme Court Noam Solberg. The memorial event takes place every year on the 7th of Adar, which, according to Jewish tradition, is the Hebrew date on which Moses died, but whose place of burial is unknown.
